http://www.iatia.com.au/technology/applicationNo te s.asp
he algorithm has a number of key advantages, including:
* Returns phase and intensity information independently
* Provides quantitative, absolute phase (with DC offset)
* Is a rapid, stable, non-iterative solution
* Works with non-uniform and partically coherent illumination
* Offers relaxed beam conditioning
* Solves the twin image problem of holography
* Has been experimentally applied to a number of radiations
You can find their list of patents on theire site. Digging into these should give you more detail.
I don't care I am going on holidays for 3 weeks in 3hours
Nothing is better than some hot food and cold beer for getting a team of people to talk to each other.
Do it on company money - team building exercise.
Schedule it long enough so those coming off roster can join in as well. You as boss should be completely pissed and butt of many jokes (great for team morale - sorry but true) by time everyone has cycled through.
I knew what i wanted to do but am hopeless with code. So I grovelled unashamedly at his feet saying what I was trying to do and that is what he sent back.
I tried to find a bookmarklet I could hack up by adding a reg exp that would remove the first bit (it. or games. from the front) in a general sense. As Jess showed I was working too hard at it.
Sure bring back some if you ever come dirtside again, but more useful:
1) a large rocky asteroid - hollowed out, sealed and air added. Living space. This is where the gigabucks are.
2) Use the gold as reaction mass for your electrically powered "ship"/asteroid maeuvering drives
3) use the platinum in rocket nozzles or whatever else it is good for
"recover several thousand tons of gold and platinum. What is that going to do to the market price of gold and platinum?"
Nothing if you don't bring it back, or cut a deal with the current people about releasing it - cf the European central banks gold sell-off deal.
Given the current/expected cost of lifting stuff to orbit (mind if you are mining asteroids I would expect that to have come down), I would expect anything in orbit to be more valuable simply in terms of mass already lifted than any dirt-side commodity market value.
First session has the (minimal OS) and vote software, supplied by election authority. If you want to go the source route to binary route on each machine, ask the Gentoo people.
Every vote then gets burnt to disk as well as a paper receipt printed.
For the paranoid, encrypt the disk and have special cd readers which do hardware crypto on the i/o to it.
Any problem - reboot the sucker (recompile ?), keep voting.
"Also I've been dealing with measurements for my house recently- anything below an inch isn't worth it."
Ever been in a house where the wall is 3/4in out from plan? The bedroom furniture did not quite fit properly - inbuilt wardrobe door hit bed when opened [don't ask me why it was not a sliding door]. The ensuite layout had to be rejigged and the wife was pissed off (thankfully it was not my money, house or wife).
It wasn't as bad as you might think, and most of the heavy data lifting (of which there was a lot) was done with real machines (mainframes, big suns)and real code.
Has the Improv code ever appeared? Is a working still available?
As a long time spreadsheet user - Symphony (on an actual original IBM PC), MS Works, Lotus 1-2-3 v1.x/2.x (when the guys around the corner had a 80286 witha FP co-processor which we used to sneak in and use), Wingz (was there ever a dos/windows version of this it was brilliant), 1-2-3 Smartsuite version, Improv (you use the W95 version?), Excel, some OO.o and toyed with Gnumeric - My DNSHO: Excel has stability issues on large spreadsheets - it will fail unexpectedly, uncontrollably and WILL scramble your data - it may open and work, but have corrupted stuff without telling you (last week). I don't care if it refuses, or fails gracefully, but inserting random errors (it removed formulas - I think I had too many ss's open and the memory was overwritten).
Want to use Windows and want a spreadsheet like interface, but handle real data with a grunty engine underneath - use SAS4Windows. Then wean yourself of the interface and go to the code - unless you want pretty pictures and it has a lot of good charting options.
I haven't had much drama with OpenOffice, have opened my work spreadsheets (mind you I avoid macros), but neither have I stress tested it - that really requires using it day in/day out, and doing that at work would get me sacked.
Improv was Ok, had some nice features.
If someone wants to write an Excel killer (OO.o v3/GNUmeric v?) - I have some ideas for you.
Hey I avoided ranting about how pissed I am with Excel. IT here at my work says Excel is not to be used for mission critical purposes, but after 4 years of knowing we need a real system NOW and at least another 18 months before we see a real system - assuming they ever get around to our business unit. Four tries for a system and always cancelling the replacement project after using our time copiously fleshing out the requirements, but never delivering anything.
But using a spare machine in the office to try different things is a sackable offence.
As a person who decided not to go on that day, I agree with the grand parent. A great chance to improve the gene pool was missed.
A number of people I knew went and unfortunately it was a schoolgirl who died, rather than some of the losers who turned up for the show and whinged bitterly for months afterwards that it might have been them. I wish.
Sorry, blowing up a bulding is dangerous. As much as I wanted to push the button myself (I used to work there and hated it), no way was I going or taking my kids. The ACT gov was (is?) just hopeless at everything.
Fascinating neutrino work. Love the little suckers.
But my bad - I should have said what I meant.
A radio wave spreads out easily - without a specifically designed antenna and covers all space easily to limit of detection sensitivity.
A neutrino beam is exactly that. Unless you know where to point it, you are not going to communicate to anyone unless you are amazingly lucky. So once you found an alien civilisation a neutrino beam comm channel could be useful.
"Dumb earthlings" is a bit inappopriate; I'd prefer "ignorant earthlings."
You weren't at the lunch time meeting I was forced to attend - dumb and ignorant are both appropriate, and yes my "superiors" have permanently coloured my view of humanity.
"We know it's possible since it's a well known fact that hyperspace exists" - references please
"but we haven't really put much effort into cracking the science, " - I half agree here, but do you know anyone with the cash to setup a research facility for it? where do start, how do you stop filter out the cranks from research positions. While I don't think FTL travel or comms is really possible, there are some truly weird kinks in quantum theory that no-one has truly explored.
"since who on earth needs faster-than-light communication anyway." - me - give instantaeneous communication (who needs FTL comms)for 2 or 3 months and watch me rake in the big bucks (forex market - arbitaging between New York, London and Tokyo), until I get shut down or bought out. Actually give me a Naser (Neutrino Amplification Stimulated Emitted Radiation), so I can set up a comm link through the Earth rather than being routed through satellites or on cables around the Earth and I could still probably pull it off - should only need a second or two as an advantage and a fast trading program.
"This is great to hear because it is believed that an advanced civilization would communicate not with radio waves but with gravity waves"
Gravity wave communication strikes me as difficult - not sure you would get the bandwidth (high frequency) without a truly monster recoil problem. And building a Gaser - while a truly phenomal feat - you would need to know where to point it.
Neutrinos might be an interesting communication solution, but you also have the problem of having to point them in the right direction.
Radio is simpler, needs lower power and even dumb earthlings have some idea on how to listen to it.
Slashdot Mirror
I would invite you to Australia, but you had better wait until after Oct 9 to decide. Even then I am not sure it will make a huge difference.
I hear both Mars and the Moon have relatively uncorrupted governments for now.
Some detailed links on how it works
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http://www.iatia.com.au/technology/insideQpi.as
http://www.iatia.com.au/technology/applicationN
he algorithm has a number of key advantages, including:
* Returns phase and intensity information independently
* Provides quantitative, absolute phase (with DC offset)
* Is a rapid, stable, non-iterative solution
* Works with non-uniform and partically coherent illumination
* Offers relaxed beam conditioning
* Solves the twin image problem of holography
* Has been experimentally applied to a number of radiations
You can find their list of patents on theire site. Digging into these should give you more detail.
I don't care I am going on holidays for 3 weeks in 3hours
WinNT4.0 at least until early next year
1. Give away trial poker playing software
2. Report home - game, server, userid of bunny & cards
3. Profit
When some company starts offering cash for tradeins of original Windows cds for a linux/bsd install, then you will know linux is a commercial threat.
Unfortunately unless I invoke the underpants gnomes, I can't quite see the business plan - unless I am IBM flogging services.
Nothing is better than some hot food and cold beer for getting a team of people to talk to each other.
Do it on company money - team building exercise.
Schedule it long enough so those coming off roster can join in as well. You as boss should be completely pissed and butt of many jokes (great for team morale - sorry but true) by time everyone has cycled through.
Thank Jesse Rudderman (Moz/FF/etc guy).
I knew what i wanted to do but am hopeless with code. So I grovelled unashamedly at his feet saying what I was trying to do and that is what he sent back.
I tried to find a bookmarklet I could hack up by adding a reg exp that would remove the first bit (it. or games. from the front) in a general sense. As Jess showed I was working too hard at it.
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/07/08/2159244.shtm l?tid=126&tid=128&tid=154&tid=172&tid= 95
There is a confidential flag in bugzilla and is used to keep those currently unfixed security bugs out of the public eye
I got someone who (Thanks Jesse) knows what they are doing to help me.
I knew what I wanted but was too clueless.
Create New bookmark.
Label something useful - "/. it fix"
In location insert this
javascript:void(location.hostname = "slashdot.org");
Save
When in story click with horrible color scheme click bookmarklet.
but what is his /. id?
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=7
Aviary version will become v1.0
Sure bring back some if you ever come dirtside again, but more useful:
1) a large rocky asteroid - hollowed out, sealed and air added. Living space. This is where the gigabucks are.
2) Use the gold as reaction mass for your electrically powered "ship"/asteroid maeuvering drives
3) use the platinum in rocket nozzles or whatever else it is good for
"recover several thousand tons of gold and platinum. What is that going to do to the market price of gold and platinum?"
Nothing if you don't bring it back, or cut a deal with the current people about releasing it - cf the European central banks gold sell-off deal.
Given the current/expected cost of lifting stuff to orbit (mind if you are mining asteroids I would expect that to have come down), I would expect anything in orbit to be more valuable simply in terms of mass already lifted than any dirt-side commodity market value.
multi-seesion live cd?
First session has the (minimal OS) and vote software, supplied by election authority. If you want to go the source route to binary route on each machine, ask the Gentoo people.
Every vote then gets burnt to disk as well as a paper receipt printed.
For the paranoid, encrypt the disk and have special cd readers which do hardware crypto on the i/o to it.
Any problem - reboot the sucker (recompile ?), keep voting.
"Also I've been dealing with measurements for my house recently- anything below an inch isn't worth it."
Ever been in a house where the wall is 3/4in out from plan? The bedroom furniture did not quite fit properly - inbuilt wardrobe door hit bed when opened [don't ask me why it was not a sliding door]. The ensuite layout had to be rejigged and the wife was pissed off (thankfully it was not my money, house or wife).
You have been warned.
Check plan vs layout to ~0.1in
It wasn't as bad as you might think, and most of the heavy data lifting (of which there was a lot) was done with real machines (mainframes, big suns)and real code.
Has the Improv code ever appeared? Is a working still available?
As a long time spreadsheet user - Symphony (on an actual original IBM PC), MS Works, Lotus 1-2-3 v1.x/2.x (when the guys around the corner had a 80286 witha FP co-processor which we used to sneak in and use), Wingz (was there ever a dos/windows version of this it was brilliant), 1-2-3 Smartsuite version, Improv (you use the W95 version?), Excel, some OO.o and toyed with Gnumeric - My DNSHO:
Excel has stability issues on large spreadsheets - it will fail unexpectedly, uncontrollably and WILL scramble your data - it may open and work, but have corrupted stuff without telling you (last week). I don't care if it refuses, or fails gracefully, but inserting random errors (it removed formulas - I think I had too many ss's open and the memory was overwritten).
Want to use Windows and want a spreadsheet like interface, but handle real data with a grunty engine underneath - use SAS4Windows. Then wean yourself of the interface and go to the code - unless you want pretty pictures and it has a lot of good charting options.
I haven't had much drama with OpenOffice, have opened my work spreadsheets (mind you I avoid macros), but neither have I stress tested it - that really requires using it day in/day out, and doing that at work would get me sacked.
Improv was Ok, had some nice features.
If someone wants to write an Excel killer (OO.o v3/GNUmeric v?) - I have some ideas for you.
Hey I avoided ranting about how pissed I am with Excel. IT here at my work says Excel is not to be used for mission critical purposes, but after 4 years of knowing we need a real system NOW and at least another 18 months before we see a real system - assuming they ever get around to our business unit. Four tries for a system and always cancelling the replacement project after using our time copiously fleshing out the requirements, but never delivering anything.
But using a spare machine in the office to try different things is a sackable offence.
As a person who decided not to go on that day, I agree with the grand parent. A great chance to improve the gene pool was missed.
A number of people I knew went and unfortunately it was a schoolgirl who died, rather than some of the losers who turned up for the show and whinged bitterly for months afterwards that it might have been them. I wish.
Sorry, blowing up a bulding is dangerous. As much as I wanted to push the button myself (I used to work there and hated it), no way was I going or taking my kids. The ACT gov was (is?) just hopeless at everything.
If you want a good generic system - try this
http://loewald.com/foresight/
Once upon a time I used it - if you want fantasy/magic/religion etc find a copy of hindsight
If these peoples &/or corps claim these genes can sue if I get one of the related diseases?
If they are responsible and own it why can't I can sue.
If they are not responsible why the monopoly on the money from gene realted diseases?
Ask and you shall receive:s hdot
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sla
" In the end Telstra's customers are the ones who get screwed. "
It will be news when Telstra's customers don't get screwed
Fascinating neutrino work. Love the little suckers.
But my bad - I should have said what I meant.
A radio wave spreads out easily - without a specifically designed antenna and covers all space easily to limit of detection sensitivity.
A neutrino beam is exactly that. Unless you know where to point it, you are not going to communicate to anyone unless you are amazingly lucky. So once you found an alien civilisation a neutrino beam comm channel could be useful.
Try http://seventeenorbust.com/ for a change.
No screensaver, just set the power management option to turn the screen off
"Dumb earthlings" is a bit inappopriate; I'd prefer "ignorant earthlings."
You weren't at the lunch time meeting I was forced to attend - dumb and ignorant are both appropriate, and yes my "superiors" have permanently coloured my view of humanity.
"We know it's possible since it's a well known fact that hyperspace exists" - references please
"but we haven't really put much effort into cracking the science, " - I half agree here, but do you know anyone with the cash to setup a research facility for it? where do start, how do you stop filter out the cranks from research positions. While I don't think FTL travel or comms is really possible, there are some truly weird kinks in quantum theory that no-one has truly explored.
"since who on earth needs faster-than-light communication anyway." - me - give instantaeneous communication (who needs FTL comms)for 2 or 3 months and watch me rake in the big bucks (forex market - arbitaging between New York, London and Tokyo), until I get shut down or bought out. Actually give me a Naser (Neutrino Amplification Stimulated Emitted Radiation), so I can set up a comm link through the Earth rather than being routed through satellites or on cables around the Earth and I could still probably pull it off - should only need a second or two as an advantage and a fast trading program.
"This is great to hear because it is believed that an advanced civilization would communicate not with radio waves but with gravity waves"
Gravity wave communication strikes me as difficult - not sure you would get the bandwidth (high frequency) without a truly monster recoil problem. And building a Gaser - while a truly phenomal feat - you would need to know where to point it.
Neutrinos might be an interesting communication solution, but you also have the problem of having to point them in the right direction.
Radio is simpler, needs lower power and even dumb earthlings have some idea on how to listen to it.